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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Vincentian University Sponsors Symposium on World Aids Day
World AIDS Day 2005 was commemorated on the St. John’s University Queens campus at a December 1 symposium where the origins, effects and impact of HIV/AIDS were chronicled by two members of the St. John’s community who have witnessed the disease “up close and...
Comprehensive List of CM Bshops
The Catholic-hierarchy web site has a list of the members of the Congregation of the Mission who have become bishops.Visit the site. Each reference also has links to more detailed information about the person. The sames site lists the bishops of other communities.
Vatican Releases Guidelines for WTO Summit
In a Nov. 2005 statement on the upcoming WTO ministerial in Hong Kong December 13-18, 2005, the Vatican wrote, “trade rules should be aligned with a wider commitment to human development and to the lifting of living standards of the poor.” The statement went on to...
Cardinal McCarrick Urges Bush to Protect Poor
WASHINGTON, D.C., DEC. 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Washington urged President George Bush to ensure that trade negotiations this month in Hong Kong protect the interests of the world's poor. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Bush met in a private meeting...
SVDP Receives 2.88 Million Dollar Grant from People of Saudi Arabia
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Receives $2.88 Million Grant from the People of Saudi Arabia to Provide Hurricane Relief From their press release... The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Council of the United States has received approval for a major in-kind grant of new...
Catholic Agency Serving Poor Says It Won’t Tolerate Rudeness
St. Vincent de Paul Society has dismissed the volunteer staff at Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mesa, saying clients coming for food boxes, utility help and other services were being poorly treated.The society’s current "conference" of 17 volunteers who had been...
International Distribution of ‘Vincent in Heaven’
Niagara University, N.Y. (December 2, 2005) – A play spotlighting the engaging humanity of St. Vincent de Paul is being published by the Niagara University Theatre Press for local, national and international distribution. Entitled “Vincent in Heaven,” the play was...
Vinnies (Australia) Testimony on Welfare Reform
November 30, 2005 CANBERRA, November 22, 2005 (vinnies.org.au): The Saint Vincent de Paul Society Site has posted the Opening statements by Anthony Dalton, John Falzon and John Wicks before the Senate Inquiry into Welfare Reform. These statements can be found at: Full...
SVDP Lauded in the Home of Waterford Crystal
Editorial in Waterford Today - St. Vincent De Paul constantly serving the community The Annual St. Vincent De Paul collection to be taken up this weekend deserves the wholehearted support of all in the community. The work of the Society goes on the whole year round...
Opus Dei Founded in Vincentian Monastery
According to John Allen "Members of Opus Dei date the group's foundation to October 2, 1928, when Josemar'a Escriva, then a young Spanish priest making a retreat at a Vincentian monastery in Madrid, experienced a vision, revealing to him "whole and entire" God's wish...
